Offshore Drilling time?

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6/20/2008 10:58 AM

First Lieutenant

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I used to live right next door to Three Mile Island in Hershey. I worried. I worried even more after 9/11. I got even more worried when inspectors caught Security Guards sleeping about a year ago. SLEEPING IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM, AND AT A NUKE PLANT??!! They should have lined 'em up and shot them. The only good thing I can say about the plant is the warm water discharge downstream of the plant produced some mighty fine Smallmouth Bass fishing, and it wasn't oil, coal or natural gas burning. ADDIT: I don't eat the Bass.
-- "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."---JFK Edited: 6/20/2008 11:02 AM by Black Owl

6/20/2008 12:44 PM

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Grumble.... I just spent a good half hour of my life typing up a response and I lost it. ARGHH!!! In short, Cleo, It's not the effects of a large scale meltdown that I'm trying to sugarcoat, I'm saying the chances of it ever happening again is negligible (1% seems very high). Hoover Dam necessarilly impacts thousands of square miles just because of it's existence. A nuclear plant doesn't, unless it has a meltdown. I'm not worried about Hoover Dam's impact, just saying that it's impact is higher than a Nuke Plant. Wind Farms also have a large footprint, though not drowned underwater. I'm all for all of them but they can't power a country of 300 million, at least not yet. Build as many as you can, and build as many Nuclear Plants as you can. They're better at least than fossil fuel plants, which is still the largest supplier of energy in the U.S. Scip, how much land is uninhabitable due to the Chernobyl incident? Owl, did it look like this:
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

6/20/2008 3:37 PM

First Lieutenant

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HeHeHe.......No, but night fishing is even better. You know where they are by that eerie green glow.
-- "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."---JFK

6/21/2008 1:40 AM

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Chevron CEO interview. Obviously the source may be suspect to some but it's an interesting, and I think honest interview. He doesn't think there is much of a bubble. It's basically higher demand but no increase in supply.
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

6/21/2008 2:09 AM

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jerm (6/21/2008) Chevron CEO interview. Obviously the source may be suspect to some but it's an interesting, and I think honest interview. He doesn't think there is much of a bubble. It's basically higher demand but no increase in supply. Well by god lets drill Anwar then. What the hell are we waiting for? A couple of stupid animal species? Screw 'em. WE NEED OIL! F* it! I want to drive to work in a SUV, not a Skooter. What would my neighbors think? And hey! While were at it why not throw a couple of hundred more tons of nuclear waste into Utah or Nevada. Not enough folks there to really give a political damned about anyway! I watched two people burn to death in their car on the way home this evening. I could smell the flesh. I apologize for being straight forward. But I'm not going to sleep tonight. F* OIL! Somethings.........aw hell with it. It's all about nothing anyway. I'll be glad and grateful when my time comes.
-- "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."---JFK Edited: 6/21/2008 2:26 AM by Black Owl

6/21/2008 2:44 PM

die with honor

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That's a tough one Owl ... sorry you, or anyone, has to see something like that. Just try to think about how much worse it could have been to ease your mind a bit. It could have been a family member ... or your job may have been to be the guy who has to put the remains in a body bag. "From birth to death, we travel between these two eternities in the great circle of life."
-- ****************************** Mine honor is my life; both grow in one: Take honor from me, and my life is done: Da Bard ... But something tosk would say. Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now they bleat like sheep for security. ~ Norman Vincent Peale~ We don't have to live in the kind of America the two Major parties have in store for us. Together, let us lay the foundations for an America worthy of our Founding Fathers. ~Ron Paul~

6/21/2008 4:01 PM

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I'm sorry to hear about that Black Owl.
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

6/21/2008 8:17 PM

Udderly ridiculous

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Unpleasant stuff, sir. Sorry you had to experience that. "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." --Richard Bach
-- "For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. " -- John F. Kennedy "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." --Patrick Overton "It doesn't matter where you are as much as where you are headed." --Mike Shanahan

6/22/2008 12:38 PM

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Tosk (6/21/2008)

That's a tough one Owl ... sorry you, or anyone, has to see something like that.

Just try to think about how much worse it could have been to ease your mind a bit.

It could have been a family member ... or your job may have been to be the guy who has to put the remains in a body bag.

"From birth to death, we travel between these two eternities in the great circle of life."

I know Tosk. And thanks for the reminder. It does help. Wink Smile

I spent most of Saturday and Saturday night getting re-centered by myself up at a friends cabin. I like to think I'm pretty bullet proof at this point in my life. I have seen a lot. I think what got at me the most was my own response to it. I was angry. Very angry. At those folks and then with myself. If you've ever driven through the near Philadelphia area you might understand that. I could only find a little sympathy for those poor souls. I felt a lot of anger towards them, and I became angry at myself for feeling that way. The east is having an effect on me, and I'm not liking it. It's so easy to be cold hearted back here. In fact, in a lot of ways it is a needed defense to block out all of the stupidity.&n